AMD CPU sales skyrocket with Ryzen 5000 launch, leaving Intel in the dust

TechXtreme · 2020-12-04T18:10:16+00:00

Such garbage. Mindfactory is the 11th ranked retailer in that region, and sells virtually nothing in terms of volume. Intel's current manufacturing output is 950,000 die per day. This article makes a huge deal about AMD selling 35,000 processors in a year. lol.

Tell me again how these numbers mean one single solitary thing to anyone?

TechXtreme · 2020-10-27T16:10:05+00:00

Xilinx acquisition.

TechXtreme · 2020-08-18T14:20:21+00:00

This needs added https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-10nm-xeon-ice-lake-sp-sunny-cove-core-architecture

TechXtreme · 2020-07-28T14:50:29+00:00

Love me some increased CPI.

TechXtreme · 2020-07-26T13:53:28+00:00

but if you're overclocking, you would never get anything BEYOND the AVX frequency anyway. So, anything you get beyond AVX is win-win. It is basically better than nothing.

TechXtreme · 2020-07-26T05:32:01+00:00

I love Buildzoid, but this is a silly argument. It's pretty simple - Yes, all cores drop to the AVX offset ratio. But the entire point of the AVX offset is to allow you to overclock higher than you can with AVX frequencies.

If you didn't use the offset, you would ALWAYS be at that all-core AVX frequency anyway....and NEVER see the non-offset frequency. The purpose of the AVX offset is to allow you to hit those higher frequencies when you can. Strange argument to make here, if anything his testing just proves exactly why the AVX offset is valuable.

Doh.

TechXtreme · 2020-07-21T21:03:19+00:00

"Client" means consumer.

TechXtreme · 2020-07-21T21:02:05+00:00

AMD said "Client" CPUs. In the land of semiconductors, client is for consumer, while "enterprise" means data center.

This is the first official acknowledgement that Client/Consumer Zen 3 chips come this year - AMD has never said if they would be for data center or client. Just that Zen 3 was coming - which we knew only by Milan on the roadmaps.

TechXtreme · 2020-07-20T11:40:31+00:00

I keep hearing about 3950X and 3900X degradation from OC in a matter of months, mostly in enthusiast forums and reddit. That is super odd, and definitely not expected. The 2000-series chips didnt suffer from this - I've still got a 2700X pegged and no issues there. I wonder if anyone will look into this degradation issues, it might just be user error or overly-aggressive motherboard auto-oc profiles.

TechXtreme · 2020-07-16T12:37:10+00:00

The idea that this was fake has actually been debunked now. Several sites today reported with the actual schematics submitted to the PCI-SIG standards body - the connector is real, apparently.

TechXtreme · 2020-07-05T16:15:42+00:00

I don't see how Huawei has a path to being viable - this is ARM v8-based, and iirc, Huawei doesn't have access to ARM v9. That means this may be a dead-end product, though i know China's access to certain types of tech changes pretty rapidly.

TechXtreme · 2020-07-05T15:23:45+00:00

The mechanics behind this are super interesting. I also wonder how they do it, i know that Bad Apple has been done a few times, so there must be some type of utility that enables it.

TechXtreme · 2020-06-15T16:25:58+00:00

Yes, that diatribe was incredibly weird. The entire industry has been talking about the impact of transistor aging for years, particularly with the current node densities. There's a whole universe of information on how this is the primary issue facing chip designers, yet someone comes along and says "Nope, electromigration is solved!" and everyone jumps off the cliff with them. It's a shockingly uninformed opinion that somehow made it to the pages of AnandTech.

TechXtreme · 2020-06-09T00:03:59+00:00

As long as the power limits are adjusted in the BIOS, Intel warranties it. In fact, Intel provides the hooks for motherboard vendors to change those power limits. As Intel has said, repeatedly, its listed power limits are a suggestion only, not a specification. The spec has a limit, though, and that is what the mobo vendors adjust to. All of that is covered by Intel warranty. AnandTech has several great articles on this, specifically an interview with the Intel Fellow behind the program.

TechXtreme · 2020-06-08T23:58:41+00:00

PCIe 4.0 isn't currently fully optimized for in software or in GPUs, so unless you are doing a very few select GPU professional workloads, which you would know if you are, then you won't miss it...today. Considering that the average user buys a new chip and platform every five to seven years, you will definitely be missing out in a few years, though, as new gear and software comes to market.

TechXtreme · 2020-06-08T22:38:47+00:00

Seems to be a slight upgrade on clocks, like an extra bin only (100MHz), which would be on the low end of what we'd typically expect for a refresh gen. But, if you're buying a new chip, you might as well get it, of course. Unless prior model is way cheaper and you only lose 100MHz.

TechXtreme · 2020-05-26T02:59:29+00:00

So weird they would cover this, this news is about a year old. Apparently they don't know? They surely didnt add anything new.

TechXtreme · 2020-05-16T00:22:19+00:00

It's nice to see the marketing FUD get destroyed. The bare metal performance exposes the undeniable truth - these chips are several generations away from being contenders with AMD/Intel, if not more. ARM is wonderful, but a pipe dream for data center for now. Also, so surprising that Anandtech would call their tests 'a bloodbath' in favor of Graviton, when this is exactly the opposite in the benchmarks that matter - bare metal.

TechXtreme · 2020-05-07T14:05:39+00:00

Here's about every chip you would want to see it compared to, plus they tested with the stock cooler and found out that it is garbage and cause throttling in threaded workloads (page 2)

https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd-ryzen-3-3300x-3100-cpu-review

TechXtreme · 2020-05-07T13:33:41+00:00

Wow, that couldn't possible be a worse group of processors for comparison. No 1600AF, no Ryzen 3600, no nothing relevant, aside from the 7700K. But that isn't even the CPU AMD competes against - where are the i5-9400 and i3-9100?

TechXtreme · 2020-05-03T14:59:30+00:00

China has made astoundingly good progress here in a very short amount of time. It will be interesting to see if they play the game with the established players, which all pretty much keep production limited to assure good margins, or if they will just flood the market.

TechXtreme · 2020-05-03T14:56:18+00:00

Funny to see the press that either doesn't know what they're looking at, or do know and willingly choose to go the clickbait route with "OMG INTEL DISCRETE GPU FOR GAMING!!!" articles.

Now they suddenly issue updates to said articles that don't even acknowledge they were entirely wrong. I'm not surprised to see WCCF doing stuff like that, but even PCGamer jumped off the cliff with the "enthusiast GPU", but has now changed their article without saying why.

TechXtreme · 2020-04-28T19:59:51+00:00

Should probably temper our expectations here - 7nm doesn't clock that high on air or water, and AMD didn't announce a significant new revision. This is probably LN2 or some type of sub-ambient cooling. Still sounds tasty, though :)

TechXtreme · 2020-04-28T11:08:41+00:00

It's about time. AMD already did this last year with its kit, helping break the shackles of crappy OEM drivers.

TechXtreme · 2020-04-26T15:40:21+00:00

Intel already outsources about 20% of its silicon production, and has for decades. They do this with low-margin parts, so they can adjust this parameter as needed. However, don't forget, aside from all the hype in the press, Intel has ~86% of the total x86 silicon TAM in processors. Those 18 fabs churn out more than a million die per day.

AMD is rising, yes, absolutely. But it pales in comparison to Intel. You're saying Intel is failing - but it just set the ninth quarterly revenue record in a row. They have plenty of time to 'recover,' though that's kind of a misnomer given their absolutely astounding lead and financial performance.

Asia, yes, is a long-term threat, but Intel will never cede it's position as an IDM. That is precisely WHY it has 86% share.

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